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Joomlashack Releases First 1.5 Native Template: Weblogic
With the third release candidate available for Joomla, Joomlashack has unveiled our first template that runs on Joomla 1.5 natively: Weblogic. You get both 1.0.X AND 1.5 Joomla versions bundled TOGETHER for only $39.95!
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Joomla 1.5 book to be released soon
If you have been following the blog, and things like the release of a sample chapter about Creating a Pure CSS Joomla 1.5 Template you will know that my new book about Joomla 1.5 is complete.
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Joomlashack’s 2nd Annual Charity Contest
Last year we asked ourselves, "what can we do to support important organizations that do good work to make the world a better place?" The answer was our first Joomlashack Charity Contest. An opportunity for 5 charities to be showcased on Joomlashack (and get donations!). Announcing our 2nd Annual Joomlashack…
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Presidential Candidates with Joomla
There are some big name sites out there using Joomla. Often its difficult to spot that Joomla is "under the hood". Most big sites have professional design and customization which makes the site very different from what is acheivable with smaller budgets. One recent site a came across recently using…
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Day 4 Duplicate SEF URLs after Migration
As mentioned in my last post, I have now managed to get a couple of blogging extensions installed and have been pruning my menus. I had planned to re-build these after migration to 1.5 to better fit my new Joomla Blog concept. On examining one of the submenus I had…
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Day 4 Installing a 1.5 Template and Joomal Blogging Extensions
So if you have been following along, I now have my old site successfully migrated to Joomal 1.5. Its currently working at www.makeajoomlablog.com. The idea here is to get the site all working as we want it to and then to repoint the DNS to compassdesigns.net for a smooth transition.
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Day 3 1.5 Migrator Problems
OK, so we have ran the migration script in our 1.0.13 site, and have hit a few snags…. There are 3 tables that need to be created for migration of the users, one record in each for each user. It seems because of the large numbers of users we have…
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Day 1 Uploading and Extracting Joomla 1.5 to your Host
As promised in my last blog post, I am going to be doing a series of tutorials about migrating your Joomla site from 1.0.X to 1.5 stable. The site I will be migrating is this one, compassdesigns.net, currently running on 1.0.X!
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Day 2 Creating the Joomla 1.5 Migration Script
The next step in migrating to Joomla 1.5 stable is to create a special migration SQL file, and then use that in the installation process of the new site. As this migration SQL file is used in the last step of installation, we need to prepare it before we start…
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Joomla! Trainings by Barrie North
Want to learn more about Joomla? Need some in-person training? Sign up now! Barrie North, owner of Compass Designs and the author of The Joomla Book – A User’s Guide to Joomla 1.5, will be offering full-day Joomla! training workshops in early 2008. The trainings will be held in the…
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